Oral history.; Born on January 27, 1966, in Natchez, Mississippi, to Elisha and Vera Wilkins, Ms. Juanita Wilkins was the eleventh of twelve children. She was graduated from high school in Natchez, and left two weeks later, moving to Dallas,...

Oral history.; Two interviews conducted with Clarence Magee. The first interview takes place on November 30, 2012. The second interview takes place on September 22, 1997 and was continued on February 09, 1998. Magee was born May 14, 1932. He was...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neill are sitting at desks across from each other, and they are both shouting. Reagan is waving a large “Veto” stamp at O’Neill. A stamp pad is on his...

Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 19, 1994 with Ms. Vernon J. Keys (born 1926). Beginning in 1965, Ms. Keys worked with the Coahoma Opportunities, Inc. (COI), a community action agency designed to improve the economic position of the poor...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Outside an El Salvadoran village, two leftist guerillas hide in the jungle and spy on a deserted village polling place. Voting papers lie scattered on the grouned. One soldier...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An 18 cent stamp has a picture of Uncle Sam wearing a very snug belt. The stamp reads, "Belt-tightening in Washington." The cartoon caption reads, "Commemorative issue."

Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 15, 1994 with Troy Catchings, Jr. (born 1942). In 1966, he began working with Coahoma Opportunities, Inc. (COI), an antipoverty agency that serves the African-American and poor white communities of...

Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on February 7 and 21, 1992 with Mr. Thomas Knight Sr. at the University of Southern Mississippi. Knight was born on July 9, 1920 near Hattiesburg, Mississippi. In 1941, he began working at the Reliance...

Oral history.; Mrs. Janelle McComb was born in Lauderdale County, and moved to Tupelo, Mississippi, when two weeks old. As a child, Mrs. McComb enjoyed the annual Mississippi / Alabama Fair and Dairy Show. She survived the Tupelo tornado in her...

Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 26, 1979 with Mr. William J. Simmons at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Simmons was born in 1916 in Utica, Mississippi. He attended Millsaps College and Mississippi College, graduating from the...

Letter written from Natchez, Mississippi, on 11 December 1864, by Thomas C. Prescott, a member of the 8th New Hampshire Infantry, and one of the more than 4500 Federal troops occupying Natchez. The letter contains personal comments on living...

From the Kitson (John) Letters. Letter to Richard Shaw of Gillingham, Norfolk. The front contains a document from the Stamp Office dated 6 July 1831, requesting unpaid duties from the will of Daniel Pettet. The letter, dated 2 August 1832, is a...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The cartoon shows the gridlines of a chart and a rising trend line near the bottom labeled, "High price of everything." A man labeled "Price fixing" is running up the trend...

A collection of eight interviews with participants in the Mississippi civil rights movement. The people interviewed discuss how they came to participate in the civil rights movement, their various activities, including voter registration, Freedom...

A collection of interviews with African-Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African-American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...